@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+int readplugins(void);

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+project(
+  'libthingplugins',
+  'c',
+  version: '0.0.1',
+  default_options: [
+    'c_std=c99',
+    'warning_level=3',
+  ],
+)
+
+libthingplugins_sources = files(
+  'src/plugins.c',
+)
+
+libthingplugins_headers = files(
+  'include/plugins.h',
+)
+
+libthingplugins_inc = include_directories('include')
+
+libthingplugins = library(
+  'thingplugins',
+  libthingplugins_sources,
+  include_directories: libthingplugins_inc,
+  install: true,
+)
+
+install_headers(
+  libthingplugins_headers,
+  subdir: 'libthingplugins',
+)
+
+pkg = import('pkgconfig')
+
+pkg.generate(
+  libthingplugins,
+  name: 'libthingplugins',
+  description: 'thing\'s plugins library, to fetch and execute them',
+  version: meson.project_version(),
+  filebase: 'libthingplugins',
+  subdirs: 'libthingplugins',
+)
+

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#include <dirent.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+int readplugins(void) {
+  struct dirent *de;
+
+  DIR *dr = opendir("/usr/share/thing/plugins/");
+
+  if (dr == NULL) {
+    printf("Could not open plugin capability directory "
+           "(/usr/share/thing/plugins/)");
+    return 1;
+  }
+
+  while ((de = readdir(dr)) != NULL) {
+    // if filename shorter than  x.toml -> 6
+    if (sizeof(de->d_name) / sizeof(de->d_name[0]) - 1 < 6)
+      continue;
+
+    // if it ends with toml
+    char *ext = strrchr(de->d_name, '.');
+    if (!(strcmp(ext, ".toml")))
+      printf("%s\n", de->d_name);
+  }
+
+  closedir(dr);
+  return 0;
+}

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ ]
 
 project_dependencies = [
   dependency('libthingterm'),
+  dependency('libthingplugins'),
 ]
 
 executable(

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#include <libthingplugins/plugins.h>
 #include <libthingterm/menu.h>
 #include <libthingterm/term.h>
 
@@ -7,6 +8,7 @@
 int main(void) {
   uint8_t ret = 0;
   struct termios old_term;
+  readplugins();
   setup_term(&old_term);
 
   static char *elements[] = {"hi", "hello", "what's up", "dang",